One thing about cooking is it sure is messy! Even when we remember to wear an apron, we still wind up with splatters all over our sleeves. The very worst are the grease stains, which always seem total...
Given the amount of crumbs that get scattered, spoons that get dropped, and pans that get spilled in the course of a single cooking session, we could probably be cleaning our kitchen floor every day a...
If cooler weather means the more time doing cozy activities in the kitchen, it also heralds our annual nemesis: chapped hands. We use our hands constantly while we cook and wash them just as often. Ad...
Spacesaving, good-looking, genuinely functional dish racks are hard to find. This new folding dish rack from black + blum hopes to fill all those requirements, and more. ...
Growing up I was always fascinated by the family junk drawer found in my mother's otherwise very neat and organized kitchen. It contained all the miscellaneous kitchen stuff that didn't fit elsewhere...
We generate a lot of vegetable scraps and trimmings every week. They all end up the compost pile, eventually, but sometimes we don't have enough to go and dump them right away, and so they sit in an o...
Q: My girlfriend and I are moving in together. We both cook a lot and our new kitchen is tiny. We want a great trashcan that can take a lot of use, but that doesn't take up a big footprint in the kitc...
We've all been there. We're baking a fresh fruit pie or bubbly casserole, and we open the oven door to see that some of the filling has oozed over the edge of the pan - and right onto the oven floor. ...
We feel a little foolish, but we need your help with a problem that's been bugging us for quite some time. Strainers! No matter how thoroughly we think we've cleaned them, we always seem to find stray...
Sheila is looking for a better soap dispenser. Can you help? She writes:I'm looking for a good-looking dish detergent dispenser that I can keep on my kitchen counter that actually works. I want one th...
Here's a product for all of you in old tenement kitchens with ancient dishwashers. You know... those old, rusty dishwashers, with spikes of rusted metal creating tetanus hazards and rusty streaks acro...
We get a lot of questions about two things that tend to take up excess room in the kitchen: storage canisters and dish racks. We've explored dish racks with small footprints, but here's one that looks...
We have this pretty great arrangement whereby I keep a canister for kitchen scraps on my counter, and our neighbor, who has a small garden and compost bin behind her apartment, takes the scraps down e...
Please, just one! We've tried all sorts of mops, from those sponge-type ones to smaller home-versions of the industrial cotton string mop. They're unwieldy, messy, and half the time we just feel like ...
Part of this week's Kitchen Cure assignment is to clean out your fridge and pantry. We've given you some tips on cleaning out the food itself, but now, what about those cupboards? And those sticky fri...
Here in Boston, the first crocuses are starting to bloom and we're starting to feel confident that spring might actually be here to stay! Want to bring a little spring into your kitchen? Check out the...
With so many of us taking laptops into the kitchen, this question from Nina is a particularly good one! I'm writing this to you after spending a half an hour getting a piece of lemon zest from under ...
Here's a good question from Tina and Phil of 30 Bucks a Week, a blog about living on $30 a week in groceries. They're looking for a good dish drainer, and they ask: Just wondering if there were any go...
Perhaps the most important non-cooking tool in the kitchen is the kitchen towel. Our kitchen towels see hard use: we lift hot pans with them, wipe up spills, wipe our hands, dust the table, and more. ...
There's some evidence to show that dishwashers consumer less water and energy than handwashing dishes, which is good news for those of us who like to leave a party's worth of dishes to the machine. It...
We have used these sponges on and off for a while. At first, they seemed like a gimmick (Stores flat! Expands when wet!), then a not-so-cheap indulgence. But after trying other sponges and even toying...
I rubbed a whole chicken with salt yesterday, prepping it for roasting, and as I awkwardly pumped my soap bottle with the back of my hand, trying to keep all that germ-y chicken juice away from my cou...
Do you use plastic wrap and aluminum foil in your kitchen? We are trying cut down on our use of plastic wrap, but we still keep it around, and we do use foil frequently. (It's recyclable!) So we're cu...
Now for something completely different. We saw this Mini Robo Vacuum at Fred Flare and couldn't resist. This little droid is a mini-vacuum for your tabletop and kitchen counters, zooming around to pic...
For years, we've been using our plastic grocery bags to line all our trashcans (including the one in our kitchen). Now that we've been packing groceries in our own cloth bags, we're running out of pla...
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